Thursday, August 7, 2008
How to solve the problem of the Stupid User Syndrome
You Noodle will tell you how much your startup will be worth in 3 years
Say hello to Berlin's new Stasi themed bar
Lessons from the collapse of social.fm
Apple's engineers say they are indentured servants. Aren't we all?
Here's a great shortlist of SEO best practices
Here's a great shortlist on how to write testable code
Say hello to the typography of The Electric Company
How libraries are stepping up into the age of the iPod
Will the semantic web have a gender?
Sigh...the Unfulfilled Promises of Virtual Reality
12 best practices for UX in an Agile environment
Who knew that Second Life was the new home for literature?
Labels: Agile, Apple, berlin, library, Second Life, Semantic web, SEO, social.fm, startup worth, Stasi, Stupid User Syndrome, testable code, The Electric Company, Typography, UX, virtual reality
posted by olli @ 20:36Wednesday, May 20, 2008
TechCrunch has some interesting stats about Hulu's current usage statistics
Say hello to "automated social networking" with Scoutle
Firehose is a crazy realtime Twitter timeline
Who are the top 50 visionaries in tech these days?
Unlike is a really interesting guide about Berlin
What's the real truth about marketing to women?
Why are so many Australian's fleeing Britain these days?
The full screen multi-touch Mac OS X wall is here but it's not from Apple
An anatomy of a start-up failure and the valuable lessons learned
Ouch! Denmark says newspapers are not "trustworthy, relevant or necessary"
Tweetwire is a newspaper that's built from Tweets
What are the worst entry level jobs in tech?
Labels: automated social networking, berlin, Denmark, Firehose, Hulu, marketing, newspapers, start up failure, tech jobs, Tweetwire, Unlike
posted by olli @ 22:07Monday, April 28, 2008
How to manipulate the media? Just ask Donald Rumsfeld
Pluck look like an interesting company if you need a social media production partner
Here's a cool look at Euphoria - the technology behind character animation in GTA IV
A study says that if you like Reality TV and are on Facebook a lot, you're pretty promiscuous
Trendpedia can compare real-time brand, people or product trends in blogs
BeatEd is a drum machine for your Symbian 60 powered mobile phone
This is an analysis of developer incompetence
These are the first colour photographs of Britain and they are amazing
Here's a small but decent round-up of apps recently featured at the Web 2.0 expo
One Floor Up is a blog that's filled with cool things you really want
Templehof Airport - To close, or not to close. That is the question
The Disability Information Portal is a social network for disabled people
AgencySpy is a blog that covers all the shenanigans of the advertising industry in one place
This Ain't No Disco is a collection of the world's most gorgeous offices - if only all offices were like this
How to build a better airline seat
Labels: AgencySpy, airline seats, berlin, developers, Euphoria, facebook, GTA IV, media manipulation, One Floor Up, Pluck, Templehof, This Ain't No Disco, Trendpedia
posted by olli @ 17:28Tuesday, April 15, 2008
PingMag has a great look on new graphic design in China
IBM discusses the future of the mobile phone
American Apparel starts implementing RFID tags in its clothing
Have you heard the one about the information architect and the fighter pilot?
Is the secret to online success - the young man's business model?
Jakob Nielsen knows what bad design looks like
Gawker Media ditches Idolator, Wonkette and Gridskipper
Ashley Highfield leaves the BBC for what could be the UK version of hulu.com
Noel Gallagher says Jay-Z is wrong for Glastonbury. We agree
If you live in Berlin - have a look at berlin.unlike
If you live in the UK and want to complain to your local council - Fix My Street is for you
Business Week on the new economics of outsourcing
Is the mobile web dead? (Walled garden? Yup. True mobile web? Far from it)
On that note - here are 10 mobile services you might want to use
37 Signals has a nice post on how a 4-day work week is playing out for them
How to download YouTube videos as mp4's
Labels: 37 Signals, American Apparel, berlin, China, Fix My Street, Gawker, Glastonbury, IBM, Jakob Nielsen, mobile telephony, PingMag, RFID, YouTube
posted by olli @ 21:50Friday, January 11, 2008
Wired magazine has a great story behind the rise of the iPhone
Trent Reznor says he favours an ISP tax to pay for downloaded music
This is a great presentation by J.J. Abrams at TED
Watch out Cornwall - the surf is up in London!
The Cool Hunter is on the case for...McDonalds?
Say hello to Expandable Furniture
Apparently, the official colour for 2008 is Pantone 18-3943: Blue Iris
Say hello to the world's cheapest car
Urban Mapping is offering a free neighbourhood API to map developers. Nice!
What is Google planning for Jaiku?
If you're feeling geeky in Berlin on Jan 28th, then check out Dorbot Berlin
Big Think is trying to become "the YouTube for ideas"
Does the typeface determine the grade on your university papers?
Labels: berlin, Big Think, Dorkbot, Expandable Furniture, Google, iPhone, Jaiku, JJ Abrams, Tata, TED, Trent Reznor, type, Urban Mapping, Wired, YouTube
posted by olli @ 22:00Monday, August 6, 2007
A fabulous look at the entire Berlin Wall before it came down
Coldwell Banker now selling homes through Second Life
How agencies are hiring in this second dot.com boom
Manchester's famous Hacienda club now part of an exhibition at Urbis
Taking a look at The Angst Of Silicon Valley
What's going on with Six Apart deleting LiveJournals?
Clicktale is a cool web-based heat-mapping usability tool
Looking to join a virtual world? You've got plenty of choice. Here's a list
Mundu is a multi-platform IM client for your iPhone
More on that: Plusmo offers upwards of 10,000 iPhone widgets
Say hello to the Axis Of Evil toy series
Nokia launches a new design studio in Bangalore
Who really cares about Mobile Roaming?
This diagram examines the complex character relationships in the TV Show Heroes
What's next in the UGC world: User Generated Design for an established design company
Are startups too reliant on the M&A market?
Labels: Bangalore, berlin, Hacinenda, Heroes, hiring, mobile roaming, Nokia, Plusmo, real estate, Second Life, Silicon Valley, Urbis, venture capital, virtual worlds
posted by olli @ 20:48Monday, May 21, 2007
Shopping mashups - the shopping of the future?
Opennet identifies and documents Internet filtering and censorship
Design Spotter's Flickr photos from the 2007 Designmai Berlin exhibition
Is Google secretly plotting to put an end to news indexing?
Why Bill Gates is wrong about mobile telephony
Failed TV pilots are finding new life on the web
The Register says that Europeans don't trust their IP for their TV
Don't know the name of a song? Identify.us is here to help
Twibble is a GPS enabled Twitter app for the Nokia N95
More mobile: Loopt lets you stalk your friends from your mobile phone
Ars Technica on the psychology of banner ads
YouLicence is a site that does music licencing for you
Nine myths of the workplace
Say hello to the Office Of Tomorrow
Labels: berlin, censorship, Flickr, Google, mashups, Microsoft, music licencing, Opennet, register, tv, workplaces
posted by olli @ 08:28Thursday, May 3, 2007
Qoob is MTV Italy's little YouTube project
Where are you in the Diggsophere?
MetaMedia takes a look at Second Life and the French presidential debate
Pandora now blocked to most international users (UK not affected...for now)
Only in Japan: The virtual dog walking video game
300 icons for your web design needs
What last.fm learned while building their site
Arrrgghh! It's boo.com!
Saul Williams writes a letter to Oprah Winfrey
Loud Graphix is a Berlin based conference around music and graphic design
12 important laws every US blogger needs to know
Local Life is an audio blog that looks at everyday life across the UK
Jason Daponte of BBC Radio 1 demonstrates how to share media playlists
Labels: bbc, berlin, blog, boo, digg, icons, last.fm, local life, loud graphix, mtv, qoob, radio 1, uk
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